In 1995, around a dozen cars pulled out of the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles to embark on a road trip that would change automotive enthusiast events. The HOT ROD staff didn’t know it at ...

The 2025 Shiny Rust Hot Rod show took place over the weekend at the Oakland Expo Center in Waterford, Michigan. It focused on classic cars, and shiny or rusty, big or small, they had them all on ...

Mickey Thompson Tires & Wheels is the Presenting Sponsor for Drag Week’s live stream, available to anyone with internet access, starting September 16. The 20th annual HOT ROD Drag Week Presented by ...

Lewisville isn’t a town known for fanfare — its charms are subtle, tucked into corners between the familiar buzz of auto ...

Anyone who is at least passingly familiar with custom cars has probably at least heard of the concept of a hot rod. A hot rod is, of course, a custom car designed with the express purpose of going as ...

What are the most famous hot rods? The most influential, history-changing cars in this hobby? The 2020 Detroit Autorama organizers presented their selections this year with an exhibition called "The ...

Some of the very first self-propelled vehicles were products of engineers and the curious in private garages and workshops. Within a few decades of the invention of the first car, companies were ...